Ageing Neurodegeneration

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In the human organism its estimated that normal patterns of cell metabolism and growth occur to approx to the age of 25, and that beyond this stage, cell metabolism by products, cell damage and mutagenic impacts become more important and may lead to progressive susceptibility to disease.

Neurodegenerative diseases (those associated with the progressive loss of neurons and neurotic functioning ) are implicated particularly late on set e.g. in aged and ageing individuals e.g. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Although the exact reason why this is so is unclear thus far; mutative mitochondrial DNA and cellular, oxidative stressors both contribute to normal ageing processes. Neurodegenerative disease attracts much attention due to the irreversibility problem, lack of any current treatment regimes and the burden of social and economic factors.